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by **David Rei** » Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to identify or track down the user
name for an old userid number. I have deleted some users from the
system and removed their home directories but they had other files
located on other file systems that I wasn't aware of. Now, all I have
is their userid number as the owner of the files. I don't want to
delete these files until I know who owned them and whether anyone else
in the company may still require access to them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David Reid

by **Edmond van A** » Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:00:00

> Hi,

> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to identify or track down the user
> name for an old userid number. I have deleted some users from the
> system and removed their home directories but they had other files
> located on other file systems that I wasn't aware of. Now, all I have
> is their userid number as the owner of the files. I don't want to
> delete these files until I know who owned them and whether anyone else
> in the company may still require access to them.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks,

> David Reid

Hi,

Why not restore an old /etc/passwd ??

Regards,

Edmond van As

by **Thomas H Jones I** » Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:00:00

You could always do a find against that/those userid(s). And, if youre
worried that those files are still used, just check whether they have an
atime less than their exit date.

any way, if it isnt apparent, im saying `man find`

-tom

>Hi,

>Can anyone tell me if there is a way to identify or track down the user
>name for an old userid number. I have deleted some users from the
>system and removed their home directories but they had other files
>located on other file systems that I wasn't aware of. Now, all I have
>is their userid number as the owner of the files. I don't want to
>delete these files until I know who owned them and whether anyone else
>in the company may still require access to them.

>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

>Thanks,

>David Reid

--

"You can only be -so- accurate with a claw-hammer." --me

by **Brad Lan** » Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:00:00

find . -user <userid> -print

>Can anyone tell me if there is a way to identify or track down the user
>name for an old userid number. I have deleted some users from the
>system and removed their home directories but they had other files
>located on other file systems that I wasn't aware of. Now, all I have
>is their userid number as the owner of the files. I don't want to
>delete these files until I know who owned them and whether anyone else
>in the company may still require access to them.

--

by **Paul Carve** » Thu, 25 Mar 1999 04:00:00

I would go along with the other suggestions on this thread (utilizing find
on the uid). A suggestion, for future endeavors though, would be to always,
always, ALWAYS copy your /etc/passwd file (or any other such volatile file
for all that matter) before making modifications. It doesn't take up a
great amount of space, and could save your life in situations such as
these.

PC

> Hi,

> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to identify or track down the user
> name for an old userid number. I have deleted some users from the
> system and removed their home directories but they had other files
> located on other file systems that I wasn't aware of. Now, all I have
> is their userid number as the owner of the files. I don't want to
> delete these files until I know who owned them and whether anyone else
> in the company may still require access to them.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks,

> David Reid

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